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Together with Finnish and international partners, m-cult is involved in research and
development projects for the Finnish Academy, Technology fund TEKES. m-cult focuses on
social and cultural innovations in projects that relate to urban and participatory media,
wireless media culture, metadata and ontology development, cross-media formats and open
source tools.
USED is an arts and research interaction project on participatory media and experience
design in the urban and wireless context. The project is funded in 2005-07 by the Finnish
Academy and the Arts Council of Finland and hosted by HIIT, Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology and m-cult. In 2006, USED organises two international seminars on urban and
participatory media.
> http://used.m-cult.org/
Together with BANFF New Media Institute and Arts Council of England, m-cult initiated
Finnish-British-Canadian research collaboration on location-based and participatory media
development. The collaboration is targeted to spin off national and international research,
development and co-production projects.
> http://www.open-plan.org
> http://www.mdcn.ca
m-cult participates in the national semantic web ontology project (FinnONTO), funded by the
TEKES FENIX programme and coordinated by the Semantic Computing Research group at Helsinki
University. In the project, m-cult develops metadata and ontologies for new media culture.
The project's second phase is to be conducted in 2005-07.
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/seco/ontologies/
New media culture is about new practices of everyday life and a new
field of professional activity and industry. The changing cultures of
use and production as well as the multi-disciplinarity of the field
pose challenges also to culture and technology policy. A key aspect
of m-cult.s profile is formed by research into practices and policies
of new media, addressed on national, Nordic and international levels.
Finnish Information Society Development Centre TIEKE and m-cult conducted a preliminary
research project on civic participation in digital television (12/2005-4/2005). The
project established a dialogue between NGOs and civic groups to create models for
participatory television production. The research was jointly commissioned by the
government's Citizenship Politics programme (Ministries of Finances and Justice)
and the digital television framework ArviD (Ministry of Traffic and Communication).
m-cult participates in networking initiatives on open source and media culture initiatives between India
and Europe. An initial networking meeting convened in connection of the Contested Commons conference on
intellectual property rights in New Delhi, January 11-12,2005.
 The Delhi Declaration of A New Context for New Media
Together with the Arts Council of Finland, and IFACCA, m-cult hosted a mini-summit on media arts and
cultural policy in August 22-23, 2004. The meeting convened in context of the ISEA2004 symposium and
produced Helsinki Agenda, an international strategy document on media arts and culture policy. Related
international reports were published in Arts Council's Arsis journal's special issue 3/2004.
Helsinki
Agenda (rtf)
In 2002-03, m-cult coordinated a research project on media culture in the Nordic countries.
Funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic Cultural Fund, the project was realized
in collaboration with CultureNet Denmark (DK), pnek (NO), CRAC (SE) and Lorna (IS). The results
are published in the m-cult.net database of actors and in a printed report, also available in PDF.
Realized in inter-ministry collaboration (Trade & Industry, Traffic and Communication, Culture&Education),
the research makes a qualitative and comparative survey of practices and policies of new media culture
while proposing actions towards developing a cultural information society. The results are published in
the book New media culture as innovation environment (in Finnish, eds. Minna Tarkka and Tapio Mäkelä,
m-cult 2002).
Commisioned by the Arts Council of Finland, the reseach on media art describes the Finnish
field, compares international policies and proposes new funding and support structures for
media art.
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